Critical Sections, a project from the Memory issue of Vectors authored by Greg J. Smith and designed by Erik Loyer, has received a Jury’s Choice Award as part of the Media Arts Show at the 2012 Electronic Literature Organization Conference. In Critical Sections, the user draws with drawingsâ€”calling to the screen a collection of observations on domesticity in Los Angeles by triggering mashups of architectural renderings for eight prototype homes with images from eight films set in, or explicitly about the city.

In other ELO happenings, the conference schedule includes a panel called “Vectors, Scalar, and Magic” featuring Mark Marino, Craig Dietrich, and Erik Loyer discussing how the rich collaborations of the Vectors journal have laid the foundation for Scalar, the new scholarly publishing platform currently in development by members of the Vectors team.